The Tetris Effect

[Reallink]

After LA Noire I got it quite bad. EVERYONE IS LYING TO ME

 

[Nopodop]

This definitely happened to me with Minecraft. And now with Terraria.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Yep. Tend to lapse into it if I'm feeling stressed.

 

[Astoria]

I get this sometimes after work. I'll look at flowers and think about how I could arrange them to make them look good (I work in a florist). It's really annoying sometimes when I need to concentrate on something but I can't.

 

[Tentickles]

If I play a certain video game long enough I begin to see things from the video game in real life. Have dreams about said video game.
I've seen glass cola bottles in the super market and giggled while thinking "lol Nuka-Cola!" The Pip-Boy thing has happened to me too.
I think the worst was when I was addicted to WoW and I would approach real life situations like Boss Fights.

 

[Michael Brunson]

The Hitman series hits me with the Tetris Effect when ever I play a new one. I spend hours playing through it trying to get silent assassin on all levels. Then in the real world I sometimes jokingly contemplate what would be the best way to assassinate someone who pisses me off without getting caught.

 

[moretwocents]

Oh, thank JESUS I'm not alone.
Let's just say, you should never play Minecraft straight through the night and fall asleep at your computer. You'll wake up with everyone looking like Herobrine.

 

[rutger5000]

I get this if I play too much guitar hero, spend too long thinking about my crush or do a lot of calculus. I had no idea there was a real phrase for it though!

Quick question, how hard can calculus get? I can do integration by parts, use the substition methode, calculate the flux through a surface, calculate some series, and switch from coordinate system. Is there much more then that

Oh, you've not even got to integration by magic yet!

Don't worry, the only other things are differential equations, apart from that it just tends to apply the same methods to increasingly difficult problems.

Actually scrap that, there's also differential geometry and topology which are REALLY difficult, but they only really come up in very specialised fields. Which I managed to get myself into. Because they will pay well. If I can be any good at them.

You mean partial differential equations, or normal differential equations. The former I can sort of handle, but the later are a nightmare. The other two I've never heard of, but I don't think those are important to me.

 

[hensethe1]

In Vanilla WoW I hardcore PvPed thru an entire summer to get rank 14. When I was done and wen't outside for the first time in .. 5-6 weeks or so the real world seemed extremely surreal where everything I saw I pictured as a part of WoW. Was part of my dreams aswell

Same thing with COD4. Damn the MP was awesome in the beginning, and after playing that a lot I kept looking around corners carefully and scouting for snipers!

 

[Shymer]

Quick question, how hard can calculus get? I can do integration by parts, use the substition methode, calculate the flux through a surface, calculate some series, and switch from coordinate system. Is there much more then that

It can get "hard" (although I'm sure some people find it easier to deal with than others). In my degree, I was using Fourier transformations and virtual work theory to calculate optimal path for a robot arm through cluttered three dimensional space. The calculations and solutions got very involved and very long. It was easy to make mistakes.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I was grinding bg's on my rogue and went down to the kitchen to see my folks when I started figuring out how to take them out with all my cooldowns so I could get a jammy dodger.

That's when I decided maybe I should take a break.

 

[Zantos]

I get this if I play too much guitar hero, spend too long thinking about my crush or do a lot of calculus. I had no idea there was a real phrase for it though!

Quick question, how hard can calculus get? I can do integration by parts, use the substition methode, calculate the flux through a surface, calculate some series, and switch from coordinate system. Is there much more then that

Oh, you've not even got to integration by magic yet!

Don't worry, the only other things are differential equations, apart from that it just tends to apply the same methods to increasingly difficult problems.

Actually scrap that, there's also differential geometry and topology which are REALLY difficult, but they only really come up in very specialised fields. Which I managed to get myself into. Because they will pay well. If I can be any good at them.

You mean partial differential equations, or normal differential equations. The former I can sort of handle, but the later are a nightmare. The other two I've never heard of, but I don't think those are important to me.

All the differential equations are fine once you learn how to use mathematica or Maple.

Don't worry about the others, unless you do something like General reletivity, riemann and hilbert spaces or quantum gravity you'll never see them. Those are really interesting though.

Captcha: That's a particle. That's actually a short lived meson. Does it want me to name the particle or something?

 

[snappydog]

I played Mirror's Edge for far too long, now I see red obstacles everywhere...

 

[newguy77]

Once after a Guitar Hero Marathon with a friend, we both would have our eyes scan up, snap down, scan up, snap down, ad nauseum from watching the note rug or whatever you want to call it.

 

[Andronicus]

Chime Chime Chime [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/stolen-pixels/8104-Stolen-Pixels-226-Chime-Chime-Chime]

Basically this.

 

[Baneat]

Though Mirror's Edge and Assassin's Creed both did wonders to my parkour vision

Same for me. No joke, things will turn red or have white glowy outlines whenever I notice they're optimal for freerunning.
Well, in my head of course, but sometimes it happens without me thinking about it. Sometimes it feels cool, other times I'm like "WTF?".

Also, whenever I'm about to get in a fight (karate class or otherwise), I go through a process much like VATS, sizing up attacks for success.

Not sure, because that's also a real "Tetris effect" from doing real PK, which is where they got the red vision idea from. They don't highlight into a colour of course, but runners percieve the world that way once they start PK/Free-running.

 

[Latinidiot]

Oh no, I'm just very meticulous when packing stuff, so I get a kind of 'natural' tetris effect, not wanting to waste space and all. WASTE IS SIN.

 

[Tharwen]

Yep. With Tetris. It gets tedious very quickly when all you're thinking about is how to apply Tetris-logic to real-world objects.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Back when I was in school and had those lovely scantron sheets I always thought it would be neat to play them on Guitar Hero/Rock Band on guitar. That is about the extent of that though.

Also, fuck you captcha. One word consisting entirely of Greek symbols? I put fuckit and it accepted that.

 

[Serving UpSmiles]

You mean like this?